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WAGON TONGUE SUPPORT. No. 357,892. Patented Feb. 15, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO C. BALL, OF GALLATIN MISSOURI.

WAGON-TONGUE SUPPORT.

8PECIFICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,892, dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed October 23, 1886. Serial No. 217,063.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ALONZO 0. BALL, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Gall-atin, in the county of Daviess and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VVagon-Tongue Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in wagon-tongue supports; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l'is a side elevation of the front portion of the running-gear of a Wagon, showing my improved wagon-tongue support attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the spring, one section thereof being shown in section.

A represents the front axle, 13 represents the bounds, and 0 represents the tongue, which is pivoted between the hounds on the bolt-rod D. To the front side of the axle, at the center thereof, is secured a plate, E, which is made of steel or other suitable metal. and is provided at its upper and lower sides with horizontal forwardly-extending flanges F.

G represents a flat curved spring, the front end of which is bolted to the under side of the tongue at a suitable distance in front of the pivotal bolt D. The spring G is provided at one end with a screw threaded spindle, b, which works in an interiorly-threaded extension, 0, and thereby the spring is formed in two sections, and may be lengthened or shortened by turning the extension 0, as will be readily understood. spring bears against the front side of the plate E, and serves to support the tongue, so as to prevent the outer end of the tongue from bear ing too heavily on the horses neck.

By lengthening or shortening the screw it may be caused to support the tongue at any desired angle.

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The function of the flanges F at the upper and lower sides of the plate E is to prevent the inner end of the spring from becoming disengaged from the said plate, and the function of the latter is to prevent the rear end of the spring from scratching or otherwise injuring the axle.

A wagon-tongue supporter thus constructed is cheap and simple, is very strong and dub at one end, and the extension 0 screwed thereto, whereby the spring-rod may be lengthened or shortened by turning the extension c,

for the purpose set forth, substantially as described.

2. In a wagon-tongue support, the plate attached to an axle and having the upper and lower flanges, E F, in combination with the rod G, made of spring metal, secured at one end to the tongue and at the other end bearing between the flanges E F, and adapted to be removed therefrom without separating any parts, the said rod G being curved downward, and serving by its inherent spring action or elasticity to provide a spring-support for the tongue, and thereby dispensing with the use ofsupplemental springs or spring attachments, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALONZO G. BALL.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. ALLEN, H. J. 001mm. 

